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Courtney Calvin's Reflections from the K4Health Share Fair
This is the second of a three-part series of posts on the K4Health Knoweldge Management Share Fair in Arusha, Tanzania in April 2016. Read Wycliffe Omanya and JoAnn Paradis's…
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A Growing Community for Knowledge Management in Africa
This reflection was originally posted by K4Health on May 10, 2016. It is the third of a three-part series of posts on the K4Health Knoweldge Management Share Fair in…
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Leveraging Data and Evidence to Drive Decision Making at USAID
This post orginally appeared on the USAID blog on May 6, 2016.Over the past five years, USAID has made significant progress in using evaluations and open data to effectively drive…
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Everything I Wish I Had Known About CLA Before Going to the Field: Tales from a cautiously optimistic Foreign Service Officer who often feels overworked, under-appreciated, and stressed
Disclaimer: I’m a Foreign Service Officer working for USAID. So when I say “going to the field”, what I really mean is sitting in an Embassy for a couple years and heading out…
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What Organizational Processes are Most Critical for Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting to Take Hold?
This blog is the fifth in an ongoing series exploring the components of USAID's CLA Framework. Here is the first blog on organizational culture, the second on effective learning,…
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“What’s in an acronym?” Decoding CLA and STIP
The USAID LEARN contract has been working with USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) since January 2015 to support USAID missions, operating units, and…
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Encouraging a CLA Culture
Rural areas of the African Sahel suffer from many hardships that dampen community resilience, leaving households prone to socioeconomic shocks. USAID’s Resilience in the Sahel…
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Challenges of Shared Decision-Making and Promising Practices to Address Them
Heather Britt is the Senior M&E Specialist for USAID/PPL/LER’s Complexity-Aware M&E initiative. The C-AM&E initiative provides technical assistance to M&E innovators…
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People, Process, Platform, Partnership, and Problem Solving: The 5P Approach to Strengthening Knowledge Management Capacity and Culture
This post originally appeared on K4Health's blog on August 10, 2015.Knowledge management (KM) capacity and organizational culture work together like an engine for initiating,…
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Saving Lives Through Continuing Education: Supporting Nigeria’s Medical Laboratory Scientists
Medical laboratory science has been called "the hidden profession that saves lives." Medical laboratory scientists (MLS) are scientific investigators, analyzing bodily fluids and…